What was left for us by the British as a legacy of colonialism, we found it difficult to build on, not to talk of sustaining and improving it, contrary to …
Akintokunbo A Adejumo
Akintokunbo A Adejumo
Akintokunbo Adejumo, a social and political commentator on Nigerian issues, lives and works in London, UK. He is a graduate of the University of Ibadan, Nigeria (1979) and University of Manitoba, Canada (1985). He also writes on topical issues for iNigerian.com and other newspapers and internet media including Nigeriaworld, Nigeria Today Online, Washington Nigerian Times, Wise News Today, etc.
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Seventeen UK newspapers and five television stations carried the news of one Mrs Julianah Balogun-Oke, a Nigerian single mother in London whose quadruplets had all been admitted to various Ivy …
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The word “Patriotism” projects a vision of billions of Chinese waving flags, or millions of Americans waving flags and singing their national anthems with nationalistic emotions. Well, don’t we do …
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Nigeria don spoil! Nigeria is a failed state! Nigeria na yeye! There is no hope for Nigeria! Nigeria has to break up! Nigeria and Nigerians cannot change! Nigeria cannot be …
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Nigeria is sitting on a keg of gunpowder, especially with the Niger Delta and all the issues surrounding it. Things are degenerating very fast in this region and only sincere, …
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Most of us who are offended by our wayward ways as a nation need to minimise the analyses and come together in order to initiate something that will catalyse positive …
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Some of our Nigerian politicians and leaders are so mad that that they keep their loot in their houses; some of them even bury cash in graves; while some of …
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Transcorp and the Federal Government should concentrate all their energy on reviving NITEL, and not wasting our money, time, energy and other resources on going into mobile telephony. Others are …
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The man who is proposing to conduct the investigation into Nigeria football is himself the personification of corruption in Nigeria. Forget about the politicians and others. Amos Adamu is the …
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In Oyo State, the aftermath of Chief Adedibu’s death should present an opportunity for collective reflection, and not joy or sadness at his death…
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Nigeria may be a blessing or a blessed nation to the corrupt ruling elite who we tolerate everyday stepping over us and slapping us in the face with their ill-gotten …
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If Nigeria wants to connect all the major cities in Nigeria by a world-class rail network and excellent world-standard standard good roads within the next 10 years, I have no …
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I used to think Nigeria has been ruled by corrupt leaders, but now I have changed my mind. Nigeria was ruled and is still being ruled by depraved, murderous and …
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It is common these days to find a politician or civil servant who goes to church or the mosque everyday to pray to God or Allah, yet when they get …
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It is instructive to note that I have severely criticised Obasanjo’s style of governance and his administrative failures in many articles, but I have never subjected him to personal abuses …
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In Nigeria, politics and government are like banks where money is kept, and thus it will continue to attract very smart, unsavoury and dishonest vagabonds, whose main aim in life …